Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
Stephanie Cole
Beatrice Mason
Ann Bell
Marion Jefferson
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Kate Norris
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Emily Bolton
Christina Campbell
Veronica Roberts
Dorothy Bennett
Patricia Lawrence
Sister Ulrica
Jean Anderson
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Annet Peters
Female Prisoner of War
The final season took up two years after the previous one, as the war drew to a close and the women were returned to their normal lives. Well, as normal as they could be after their imprisonment.
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